❰ the question has him shaking his head a little, at least at first. how does he even explain why? but after a bite of cereal's taken, chewed, swallowed - ❱

He'll have something to say. ❰ about the words. the truth of them. lalli wrinkles his nose a little, like the words he's settled on saying next aren't right but they'll suffice. ❱ Has it in his head, what he thinks people are, aren't. What they deserve or don't. Like you don't know yourself better. ❰ lalli himself doesn't want to deal with it. it's precisely half of why he's keeping his own new markings covered up. ❱